Mailman 3 October 2004 - Mailman-Developers

SCRUBBER Question
by Kory Wheatley Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

I have Scrubber enabled on my Mailman 2.1.5 configuration. It works fine stripping the attachments, except, why does it change a Microsoft Word extension ".doc" to a ".bin"? This makes it difficult to open the attachment, because you have to either save it to your hard drive and associate the file to open in the correct program, or choose which program to open it with. Why doesn't Scrubber just leave it at .doc and then when you click on the stripped attachment link, wouldn't it know to bring up the correct application and display the file? Or would it thing the content type is HTML? Any solutions or work around. Please respond this is critical that I know if there is something I can do. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Rewrite the email header to hide the "To" address
by Patrick Lam Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

Dear Experts, Is there any option (or change a small part of code) in Mailman that allow us to rewrite the "To" field, say "Undisclosed-recipients" so that the name of the mailing list will not be exposed to the recipients??? Actually, I am using Mailman for email distribution and receive a lot of virus emails as some of the recipients' machine is infected. I knew BCC can help, however, just afraid the users will forget . Million thanks!! Regards, Patrick ----------------------------------------------------- Patrick Lam Sze Fan Computer Officer II Medical Information Technology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tel:21455213 Fax:26375470 -----------------------------------------------------

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Limiting numbers of members per list.
by Gustavo Franco Oct. 1, 2004

Oct. 1, 2004

Hi list, I'm new here and i've tried to start sending a patch[0] to control the number of members per list.Can anyone check that? I keep it small as possible to see if the "engine" is right.I need your feedback, because i'm interested in contribute with more related features as described/requested on RFE #403310. [0] - #1029275 at sf.net Hope that helps, Gustavo Franco Information Network for the Third Sector http://www.rits.org.br

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Content-filtering - is filtering of content-description possible?
by Andrzej Kasperowicz Oct. 1, 2004

Oct. 1, 2004

Is in the Content filtering section possible to define only content-type? I suggest that it should be also possible to define Content-description. Because Pegasus Mail for example when is sending an attachment it adds content-descriprion, and mailman filter although removes the attachment itself, it does not remove the content-describtion causing to send to the list a message with the following text content:

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How to change comment sent by Mailman with rejected posts?
by Andrzej Kasperowicz Oct. 1, 2004

Oct. 1, 2004

When in Content filtering Section I set Reject as Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules, then the sender of the message, which was rejected, receives the following e-mail from Mailman: "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed" How could I change that message? Is there any form where I could put new text of the message, and if there is no form, could you please add it in future version of Mailman? ak

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Pickle-induced integration issues
by Rob Lanphier Oct. 1, 2004

Oct. 1, 2004

Hi folks, I manage Helix Community, which makes pretty heavy use of Mailman as integrated into GForge. I'm moderately familiar with Mailman code, and pretty familiar with GForge. Of course, Perl is my native tongue, so I'm equally uncomfortable in both codebases ;-) Anyway, one thing that my users are constantly clamoring for is features that would come from tighter integration between GForge and Mailman. I've been mulling this over for a while, and it seems that deep integration is limited by the way that most Mailman data is stored in pickles. Since GForge is coded and pretty heavily bound to PHP. My options for integration between the two seem to be: 1. Implement alternate GForge authentication mechanism in Mailman 2. Implement alternate, PHP-compatible storage mechanism (e.g. SQL database) for everything currently stored in pickles 3. Implement pickle support in PHP 4. Implement IPC mechanism (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC) as a Mailman control daemon, and call that from GForge I'm wondering if there are recommendations from this group. I'm also wondering if there have been any movements/efforts in any of these directions already. This is one of many problems that I plan to work on over time, and plan to contribute patches to the extent that they are useful to a larger community. If I'm lucky, I'll get budget to hire developers for this, but for now, I'll be doing this on the cheap. Thoughts? Rob -- Rob Lanphier, Development Support Manager - RealNetworks Helix Community: http://helixcommunity.org Development Support: http://www.realnetworks.com/products/support/devsupport

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